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A development team is using Azure DevOps and wants to streamline their Agile workflow. They need a visual tool that provides a real-time overview of work in progress, limits work in each stage, and helps identify bottlenecks. This tool should allow team members to pull work as capacity allows, rather than being pushed work. Which agile work management tool is best suited for these requirements?
- ADelivery plan
- BScrum board
- CKanban board
- DTask board
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Correct answer: C. Kanban board
A Kanban board is specifically designed for visualizing workflow, limiting work in progress (WIP), and enabling a pull-based system where team members take on new tasks as they complete existing ones, making it ideal for identifying bottlenecks and continuous flow.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. A Delivery plan (in Azure DevOps) is used for visualizing multiple team backlogs and their dependencies across a timeline, not for managing the day-to-day workflow and WIP limits of a single team.
- B. A Scrum board (Sprint board in Azure DevOps) is time-boxed and focuses on iteration goals, not primarily on continuous flow or WIP limits across stages in the same way Kanban does.
- D. A Task board in Azure DevOps is typically a detailed view of tasks within a sprint, a component of a Scrum board, and doesn't inherently focus on continuous flow and WIP limits across broader stages.
Kanban Board
A Kanban board is an agile project management tool designed to visualize work, limit work in progress (WIP), and maximize efficiency (flow). It uses columns to represent stages of work and cards to represent individual tasks, promoting a pull-based system.
- Visualizes workflow.
- Limits Work In Progress (WIP).
- Promotes a pull-based system.
- Identifies bottlenecks.
- Focuses on continuous flow.
Memory trick: Boards show work in motion.